Eric Illsley

Eric Illsley (9 April 1955-) was the Labour MP for Barnsley Central from 12 June 1987 to 8 February 2011, succeeding Roy Mason and preceding Dan Jarvis.

Biography
Eric Illsley was born in Kendray, West Riding of Yorkshire, England in 1955, and he worked as a National Union of Mineworkers official for ten years. In 1986, the NUM nominated him to run for Parliament as a Labour candidate, and he was elected as MP for Barnsley Central in 1987. Illsley supported a ban on the import and export of landmines by the United Kingdom, the introduction of identity cards, and voted in favor of the Iraq War. He resigned in 2011 after pleading guilty to three charges of false accounting, and he served three months in jail.